Quote by Ellen Glasgow
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow

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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. – Edward Bond

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He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. – Abraham Lincoln

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I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. – Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948), in Young India, 1925

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